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<h2><big><big>How the US is Arming Both Sides of the Iraqi
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<div class="ecxauthor"><big><big>By <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/tyler-durden"
title="Posts by Tyler Durden">Tyler Durden</a></big></big></div>
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<div class="ecxgrDate"><big><big>Global Research, June 13,
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<div class="ecxsourceDate"><big><big> <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-12/how-us-arming-both-sides-iraqi-conflict">Zero
Hedge</a> 12 June 2014</big></big></div>
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<em>Recall a week ago we wrote “<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-04/us-begins-delivering-f-16s-iraq-week-decade-after-it-wiped-out-its-air-force">US
Begins Delivering F-16s To Iraq This Week, A Decade After It
Wiped Out Iraq’s Air Force</a>” in which we said:</em><br>
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<div><big><big>… the US will deliver the first of 36 F-16 fighter
jets to Iraq in what Baghdad’s envoy to the United States
called a “new chapter” in his country’s ability to defend
its vast borders with Iran and other neighbors. ….the US
earlier in March provided Iraq with some 100 Hellfire
missiles as well as assault rifles and other ammunition.
Then in April the US sent more arms, providing Iraq with 11
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It is unknown how many of these have fallen into Al Qaeda/ISIS
hands (we do know that at least one Iraqi Black Hawk chopper was
captured during the rush for Mosul). What is known is that as
PBS Frontline reported two weeks ago, while the administration
has denied arming Syrian “rebels”, i.e. the same ISIS militants
that have crossed the border and are now fighting in Iraq…<br>
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… the reality is that it has. From: “<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-28/someone-lying-obama-says-not-arming-syrian-rebels-yet-syrian-rebels-disagree">Obama
Says Not Arming Syrian Rebels, Syrian Rebels Say He Is</a>”<br>
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<blockquote><big><big>… the Syrian rebels themselves say they are
already armed and trained by US in the use of sophisticated
weapons and fighting techniques, including, one rebel said,
“how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.” The
interviews are the latest evidence that after more than three
years of warfare, the United States has stepped up the
provision of lethal aid to the rebels, as PBS notes “it
appears the Obama administration is allowing select groups of
rebels to receive US-made anti-tank missiles.” The commander
of the unit also told Ali that their American contacts had
asked him to bring 80 to 90 members of his unit to Ankara for
training. One of the fighters said they received three weeks
of training in how to conduct ambushes, conduct raids and use
their weapons. They also said they received new uniforms and
boots. “They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and
cut off the road,” said the fighter, who is identified only as
“Hussein.” “They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle,
raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and
how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.”<br>
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To summarize: the US was arming and training the same Al
Qaeda/ISIS groups of Jihadists, that it concurrently gave Iraq
weapons to fight. And since the Iraq army has so far proven
utterly incapable of any resistance, it is now up to US
drones to “fight” the same “rebels” that the US itself was
collaborating with until a month or so ago.<br>
The clear winner here? The US military-industrial complex, of
course, as well as the banks who lend money to the governments
to fight wars provoked by various “developed nation” spy
agencies.<br>
Collateral damage? Millions of innocent people on the ground in
Syria and Iraq, and everywhere else too.<br>
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